West Point High School - Cadet Yearbook (West Point, NE)

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Academics Cadet Connections“81-82” Travel Far and fulfill your dreams grab hold of a passing star that really gleams Like a sailing boat or a gliding plane Always keep your goals afloat. 12th Alan Feyerherm, Brian Wickert. Julie Lierman, Kris Sanders. Seniors Connect With World Of Reality Graduation: Senior Class It was just yesterday we passed through the doors of grade school. We learned how to read and write. We played the games together, laughed together and cried together. Time went on and we passed through the gates of high school. Remember our first dance, our fijgt date, and our first puppy WjW Each day went on and we a task and accomplished it. Soon new doors will open to the big world. Different opportunities for each of us lie ahead. We share our last goodbyes and cries. Reflecting back all the memories, happy and sad, good and bad, love and hate, and now we look at each other and say . . . Farewell and Remember me always. Dreams have brought us this far, now cross the bridge into reality full of ambition and ability.

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Bridging The Gap Flood Story When I walked down to see the bridge Sunday afternoon, I was very surprised to see that there were alot of people on the bridge. But when I got up there too, I realized the concern people had. The river was extremely high! It hasn’t been so high and near to flooding in years! I walked on the bridge looking at the ice chunks float under the bridge and talking to everyone I knew, when all of a sudden, “crunch”, the whole bridge shook. A large ice chunk hit a support. That was scary. I didn’t want the bridge to collapse on me. Due to unseasonably warm temperature and much snow this winter the river was up to 15.1 feet at 11 a.m. on Sunday. It covered the banks completely and was up the dike aways. The lowlands on the west side were covered. The curve of the highway got covered and one farm west of town was evacuated. Everybody was worried about whether or not it would go over the dike. Alot of people from third ward were there just checking it out. The ice was jamming up on the south end of the river and you could almost see it come closer. Everybody was saying, if it gets under the bridge, oh no! People were saying they should dynamite the ice but then they said they couldn’t do that because towns farther down would get flooded. Nobody talked about anything else Sunday afternoon. How glad some were that they lived of the east side of town and those close to the river were trying to think of what to do with all their stuff. Then we hear about Wisners ice and and the awful possibilities. If their’s breaks and ours doesn’t we’ll flood for sure. I was getting more and more nervous by the minute, water was everywhere and we live close to the river. If it goes over, what’ll happen to our house? I imagine several other people felt the same way, especially those- who live right under the dike. School kids were discussing, do we get out of school to sandbag if needed, what about if we get flooded and need to go home and help. We heard about the farmer who had to move his livestock twice because of flooding. The flood reached its peak at dusk on Sunday, of 16.30 feet, 4 feet above flood stage. The water would have had to rise 3 more feet to reach i9 feet before going over the diKe. Even with this reassurance people were still worried over the Wisner jam. But Monday morning the town breathed a sigh of relief when we heard our ice jam as well as Wisner’s had broken and was down the river. Now this episode is just water under the bridge.

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Seniors electrify Kevin Baumert Our senior year is the one most hoped for, dreamed for, and strivin for, and we finally made it! But what does our senior year mean? It means pictures, announcements, name cards, memory books and graduation parties. Being a senior means running around trying to get everyone’s picture, name card, and signature in your memory book. It makes people realize that we’re a class and we’ll all be separating soon to work, get married, or go to college. It’s our last year and we can remember we won the spirit stick! We put on a real good prom and had money left over to eat at the Vet’s club as a class. Then trying to get everyone in one place after school to have a group shot taken, that was hectic! In our last sememster we keep going to class, counting the days to graduation. Finally, we graduate! We realize this is the last time we’ll all be together. The unseen wires that connected us and helped us tune in to each other will be cut tomorrow as we make our own future. Bruce Benne Mary Boyum Dan Buckmann Debbie Benjamin Shelley Black Robert Broekemeier